Though I haven't even read the magazine once in the past two decades, I have a beach/bath towel with the GamePro logo on it, which I received as a giveaway at the June 1989 Consumer Electronics Show, which would make it right when the mag started. I was doing graphic design/advertising at my first job then, and there might be an ad I worked on in the very first issue.

The towel is still in excellent condition - not a tear and little wear. I'll be sure to use it after this evening's shower.

It's a monument at the entrance to a national park. See some pictures here:

http://chinaart.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2006-08-27

Not everything is a military or scientific structure.

Surprisingly enough, it says "Danghe Reservoir".

A lot of the advanced features you see in popular "cool, cutting-edge" languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, filter/map/reduce, continuations - were pioneered by Lisp. If you know Lisp, and you look at such languages, it's obvious that the creators also knew Lisp, and when they needed their language to do something that it couldn't otherwise do, they adapted something from Lisp. Interestingly, many such features were not, or could not be, or have been only with great difficulty, adapted to older languages like C/C++.
It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.

The same thing to a lesser degree can be said about Smalltalk. Lisp and Smalltalk's influence is not so much in being used directly to create applications, but in creating other languages.

No need to bother with strings or side effects. This is all you need:

'world-says-goodbye

(re-posting what I just posted anonymously)

A lot of the "cool, cutting-edge" features you see in popular modern languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. - stuff like closures, functions as first-class objects, lambdas, and filter/map/reduce - come straight from Lisp. Even the very idea of XML is just a variation on the list structure of Lisp. It's taken fifty years for these modern languages to catch up to Lisp.

Grumman TBF
Grumman A-12

Here are some great science sites that I, and many of my fellow countrymen, can recommend.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php

Fresco, Farmer, Fishbed, Flogger, Foxbat, Fulcrum (yes, the MiG-15 is deliberately left out)
Fitter, Fishpot, Flagon, Fencer, Flanker
Flashlight, Firebar, Forger
Bear, Badger, Blinder, Backfire, Blackjack
etc.

The good thing is that the names are ordered... though I'm not sure if Bear should be first or between Backfire and Blackjack.

You know, I think The Onion needs to update their classic article about the man who doesn't own a TV with a new one about the Area Man who constantly mentions that there is absolutely nothing on iTunes that meets his oh-so-eclectic musical tastes. (As well as the Area Man who constantly mentions that he's not on Facebook and franky doesn't understand what's so interesting about it.)

Not so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Nationality_Rule

I've built high-speed trains to Zhengzhou, Wuhou, and North Shenyang, and by gum it put them on the map!

I see it the other way. Studying a handful of Romance languages (in my case, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) gets you all the Latin-root vocabulary that is supposedly so useful in English, while you don't have to deal with the rest of Latin (i.e., the complex grammar) which of no practical use, and you get living languages that you can actually use to communicate with people.

Thank you so much, on behalf of myself and every geek here on Slashdot who could not bear the shame of not being able to answer those test problems, and at the same time had an unquenchable thirst to know the answers, wishing only that someone would reveal them to us so that one more crucial intellectual void might be filled.

Neither is Italian==Greek or Sanskrit or classical Arabic. Does the parent post imply in any way that Dante wrote in Latin?